Time Travel Adventures Of The 1800 Club, BOOK I

The 1800 Club is a 21st Century haven for people seeking to escape New York City's frantic pace. Dressed in clothes their ancestors might have worn during the 1800s, members enjoy foods of the period and read periodicals featuring news of a particular date in 1865. However, the 1800 Club also has an astounding secret; Time Travel. Members travel back in time to keep history on track. More

Chapter I The President Lincoln MissionA probe sent back to record the Gettysburg Address makes a startling discovery: President Lincoln never makes it! The great man came down with a deep depression and could not leave his room. The 1800 club must send someone back in time to correct this problem, and club member William Scott is selected. He is let in on the club’s secret; its ability to time travel and after completing the mission is offered the job of President of the 1800 Club. The mission taught him that going back in time is not always a lark as the people of the past had the same likes and dislikes as us and more than one could be dangerous as he found out himself.

Chapter II The Teddy Roosevelt MissionWhat if the charge up San Juan Hill didn’t take place in the Spanish/American War? What if Teddy Roosevelt was not the swash-buckling man the world of today knows and never ran for president? History would take a different course and the world would be a different place. For one, more men would die in the Spanish/American War because he prolonged the conflict by not charging the hill. The dead men’s lives get cut short and they have no children to carry their names. Artists, teachers, doctors and ordinary family men that would have been in their lineage are never to be. Once again a club member must go back in time and fix the glitch. Finding out that one of Roosevelt’s closest friends and advisors was Bat Masterson, our time traveling club member must first make sure that they meet. This entails that he must travel to the Wild West.

Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, I now reside in Long Beach, N.Y. I worked in New York City as an Art Director for 3 different magazines one of which was UFO magazine. I've been writing short stories for the past 15 years and found Time Travel to be my favorite topic. After writing Time Travel Adventures of the 1800 Club: Book 1, I wrote books 2 through 14 and am presently working on book 15. In between I've penned a young adult time travel book, two aviation trivia books, a book about a family of vampires, a romantic western and another time travel book plus 'Sky Ship', a high-action thriller.

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Reviews

Review by:
William B. Scott
on Jan. 14, 2013 :
Bob McAuley's "1800 Club" series is a new benchmark in the time-travel genre. His innovative, unique scenarios and plot lines are refreshing. The idea that carefully selected members of the 1800 Club could travel back in time to ensure historical events don't go off-track is unique and readers will be hooked immediately. Don't miss a single episode of this terrific series! ....and keep 'em coming, Bob!(review of free book)

Review by:
Gina melo
on Nov. 28, 2011 :
I downloaded this e-book in the morning and couldn’t put it down! The story line was fantastic: People from our future send probes back to keep track of history because they discovered that sometimes history veers of course and they must go back and straighten it out. Their only problem is that because they cleaned up their atmosphere so well they have a hard time breathing the air of the 1800s, and they can’t go back and fix it. They solved this problem by starting the 1800 Club. Because the club members playact at actually living in the 1800s, they can easily slip in and out of the 1800s and fix the glitch in history, thus assuring that events turn out as the history books say they did. The author has a unique ability to make the reader feel as though they were present in the scene and I felt I could smell old New York City along with the horse waste the time period generated. Bottom line is that I finished reading book 1 and I am going to download book 2 this evening. Kudos to the author and I hope he keeps writing and adding to this series. 5 stars(review of free book)

Review by:
Charles Seper
on Nov. 27, 2011 :
Interesting take on the time travel theme from a pure fantasy perspective. There’s nothing sci-fi about this tale—no heavy discussions of time travel theory, nor any thought given to things like causal loops etc. In this tale protectors of the future travel to the past in order to insure that the past does not change, and therefor the future with it. We’re not told how it’s even possible that the past could begin to change in the first place, and we’re not shown any trickle down after effects when it does. For instance, when Roosevelt decides NOT to charge up San Juan Hill, we’re not told how this effected the future. One would assume that the future would be changed simultaneously with the past, but here—apparently not. Rather, the story focuses on these future time protectors and how they manage to right things in the past once they’ve started to go wrong. Teddy Roosevelt doesn’t charge up San Juan Hill? Let’s go back to a time slightly before the charge and see if we can change his mind through normal psychological manipulations. The story reads more like a light television drama from the 60s (thinking of shows like The Time Tunnel). Not a bad way to spend an afternoon.(review of free book)

Review by:
samuel hill
on Nov. 03, 2011 :
This is a very fantastic book. I liked a lot. Good job to the author.(review of free book)

Review by:
Scot Walker
on Sep. 12, 2011 :
what an interesting book. My dad helped renovate Ford's Theatre and the Peterson House where Lincoln died so this story was close to my heart. I also love the works of Jack Finney (From Time to Time; and TIme and Time Again) and this book is written in that same type of style--going back in time, trying to change time. kudos Robert McAuley for your interesting work.(review of free book)

Review by:
morgan nutt
on Aug. 15, 2011 :
Many times you have to read quite a bit of a the book to understand the author's style. Mr. McAuley has a rythym that is so easy to follow that you immediately get into the flow of the story and all the characters. The down side is the stories end too quickly. The next is always as good or betterthan the last.(review of free book)

Review by:
Rich Zino
on June 13, 2011 :
(no rating)
Wow! I just finished ‘Time Travel Adventures of The 1800 Club’ and again, Wow! I found this book to be a cut above so many other time travel novels and told my friends that this is an author to follow. Mr. McAuley has the ability to bring the reader back in time and make them feel as though they were walking along the streets of New York in the 1800s. The reader almost experiences the smells and sounds of the time. He has so many twists that you think you know where you’re going when you suddenly find yourself on a different tack. He has done his research well because many times the people he uses are the people who were around in the time period he has selected. I can’t wait for Book 2!(review of free book)